March marks the end of the Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) year and time to make sure your business doesn’t pay any more FBT than is necessary. Instead of giving you a boring description of what FBT is and your obligations, we thought we would take a ...
One of the most common questions we’re asked is "so where's the profit?" This is because the business's bank account hasn’t risen by the same amount as the profit. For our business clients, we have the tools to answer this question and appraise other ...
We have all dealt with businesses that seem to be run in an environment of confusion and chaos. It sometimes feels that nobody can, or indeed is able to, help their customers or colleagues by making decisions that resolve conflict and assist in moving ...
Fraud can be a sensitive issue, especially if it is occurring within the workplace. In a business environment, it’s essential to know how to detect a fraudulent act and how to deal with it professionally. What Is Fraud? Fraud is an act that is committed ...
If you are an employer who has provided benefits to your staff (or their associates) in forms other than salaries and wages, you may be deemed to be providing Fringe Benefits to those staff members and are required to lodge a Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) ...
In today’s world we all have access to learning material that helps us think about our businesses and what could make them more successful. Publications, news items, webinars, blogs and the like are all part of the resources available to us. At Altus, we ...
From our experience with helping our clients with their accounting and management reporting needs, we have compiled an outline of what we think are benefits and issues relating to adopting cloud based reporting tools. The key benefits of cloud based ...
Accounting software for small to medium businesses is at a crossroad with full cloud products like Xero, Saasu, Netsuite and JCurve establishing themselves in the Australian market over the past few years. They are all growing fast. But are they right ...